Wrapper for cigars.



No. 655,549. Patente d Aug. 7,1900. F. E. FONSECA.

WRAPPER FOR CIGARS.

(Application filed liar. 15, 1900.) (No Model.)

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NITED STATES PATENT O FICE.

FRANCISCO-E. FONSECA, OF NEXV YORK, N. Y.

WRAPPER FOR CIGARS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 655,549, dated August7, 1900. Application filed March 15, 1900. Serial No- 8,786. (No model.)

To ttZZ whom it may cancer/e:

Be it known that I, FRANCISCO E. FONSECA, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at the city of New York, borough of Manhattan, in thecounty and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved rapperfor Cigars, of which the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription.

One purpose of the invention is to provide a protective wrapper or coverfor cigars and a means whereby the ends of the protective wrapper orcover may be twisted or manipulated in such a manner that saidprotective wrapper or cover will be held in position upon the body ofthe cigar even if the cigar be roughlyhandled and, furthermore, to soform the ends of the protective wrapper or cover that they will serve ascushions, preventing the cigar from being damaged at such points shouldit fall from a box or other support or from the hands of its holder.

Another purpose of the invention is to so construct a protective wrapperor cover for cigars that descriptive or other advertising matter may beadvantageously displayed thereon.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of theseveral parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed outin the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part ofthis specification,

in which similar characters of reference indi-' cate corresponding partsin all the figures.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a cigarinclosed in the improvedprotective wrapper or cover. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the cigar andprotective wrapper or cover for the same, the wrapper or cover beingpartially sealed and partially open; and Fig. 3 is a side elevation ofthe cigar and the improved protective wrapper or cover therefor, one endbeing completely sealed and the other end partially sealed.

The protective wrapper or cover A is pref erably made of paper and is ofsuch dimensions that it will receive the entire cigar B and completelyconceal the cigar when the wrapper has been secured in place thereon.The protective wrapper or cover A is of such length that it will extendbeyond the ends of the cigar B, and the ends 10 of said protectivewrapper or cover A are out at an angle or inclination, so that theportions of the protective wrapper or cover projecting beyond the endsof the cigar when the body of the cigar is enveloped may be twistedtogether, forming practically tapering cords, as shown at the right inFig. 3, thus securing the body por tion of said wrapper or cover inposition'on the body portion of the cigar. When the twist or cord abovementioned has been formed, said twist or cord is wrapped back upon theprotecting wrapper or cover, forming a coil 12, (shown at the left inFigs. 1, 2, and 3,) and the free ends of the twisted portions or cords11 of the protective wrapper or cover are passed beneath sundry of thecoils when the complete number of coils 12 have been made, asillustrated at 13 in Figs. 2 and 3. Under this arrangement of theprotective wrapper or cover the body of the wrapper or cover is made tohug the cigar closely from end to end, and the coils 12 at the ends ofthe cigar constitute cushions which prevent the end portions of thecigar from being fractured should they strike a surface when leaving thehand or any support provided for them.

It is obvious that the outer face 14 of the protecting-wrapper may beutilized as a display-surface for advertising matter, if so desired, ormay bear the name of the seller or the receiver.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent 1. Acigar-package, comprisinga cigar, and thecontaining protecting-cover,the said cover extending normally beyond theends of the cigar and having its extended ends twisted to formpractically cords which are wound back upon the cover and secured.

2. Acigar-package, comprising a cigar, and the inclosingprotecting-cover having its ends extending beyond the ends of the cigar,each of said ends being sloped or inclined to a point and twisted toform practically a tapering cord which is wound back upon the cover andsecured.

3. A cigar-package, consisting of a cigar, and the inclosingprotecting-cover having its ends extending beyond the ends of the cigareach of the said ends being sloped orinclined wound back upon the coverand has its exto a point and twisted to form practically tatremitypassed under sundry of the coils. pering cords, which are wound backupon the In testimony whereof I have signed my cover and have theirextremities passed under name to this specification in the presence of 5sundig of the coils. two subscribing witnesses.

4. cigar-package, comprisinga ci ar, and

the inclosing protecting-cover, said co ver hav- FRANCISCO FONSEOA' ingone end extending beyond the cigar, the Witnesses: said extended endbeing pointed and twisted J. FRED ACKER,

10 to form practically a tapering cord which is JNO. M. BITTER.

